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Abbas Rana

Infighting among senior Conservatives leaves caucus, staff, and volunteer morale ‘in the absolute shitter,’ say MPs, veteran party members

Persistent internal squabbles amongst senior Conservatives have dampened the morale of caucus members, staff, and party volunteers who devote countless hours to helping the party succeed and win elections, raising concerns that the infighting could hurt the party’s prospects going forward and ultimately jeopardize Leader Pierre Poilievre’s political future. “The morale is in the absolute shitter, completely,” said a Conservative...

Joe Sommerlad

Trump confronts Carney at World Cup Final over wildfire smoke: ‘Our air’s being poisoned’ - says he took Carney to task, demanding that he bring the natural disaster under control

President Donald Trump has revealed he confronted Canadian prime minister Mark Carney at Sunday’s World Cup Final over the smoke drifting into the U.S. from his country’s devastating wildfires, telling him: “Our air’s being poisoned.” Trump recounted their frank exchange at Joint Base Andrews as he returned to Washington from the FIFA tournament’s finale, which he, Carney and Mexican President...

Daniel Otis

U.S. senator says states should help Canada ‘without the threats’ as Trump fumes over wildfire smoke

As U.S. President Donald Trump threatens Canada with tariffs over wildfire smoke, a U.S. senator says states should be stepping up to help Canada “without the threats.” “When California was burning, Canada sent fire fighters, planes and assistance — not insults,” Sen. Adam Schiff of California said in a social media post on Sunday. “As California and other states step...

U.S. Ambassador Hoekstra set to speak at Edmonton conference on regional partnerships

The U.S. Ambassador to Canada is set to speak in Edmonton today at a regional economic conference. The agenda for the Pacific Northwest Economic Region's annual summit says Pete Hoekstra is to talk about how regional partnerships support cross-border relationships. The organization was established in 1991 by five U.S. states, three western provinces and the Yukon and Northwest Territories to...

Kristy Nease

Government tip-off prompted spy agency to look into federal scientist, CSIS says

Dennis Lu, retired from Natural Resources Canada, charged with breach of trust, unauthorized use of a computer. The country's top spy agency says Natural Resources Canada approached it with concerns about former federal scientist Dennis Lu more than two decades ago, not the other way around — and has made a rare disclosure of one of its documents in court...

Polls

David Valentin

Federal Tracker: Liberals Lead by 8 as NDP Slip

The latest Weekly Federal Tracker from Liaison Strategies shows the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, holding an 8-point lead over Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives. Among decided and leaning voters, the Liberals stand at 43%, followed by the Conservatives at 35%, the NDP at 12%, the Bloc Québécois at 6%, the Green Party at 2%, the People's Party at...

Wildfire fears burn hot, even as belief in human-caused climate change continues to decline

Smoke from hundreds of wildfires burning across northern Ontario has blanketed large parts of Canada and drifted deep into the United States this week, triggering air-quality warnings from the Midwest to the East Coast and threats of tariffs from the U.S. President, who argues Canada is not doing enough to control and prevent the fires. New data from the non-profit...

Opinion

David Vigneault, Trevor Neiman

Openness, Exploited: Canada’s Greatest Strength Is Now Its Biggest Vulnerability

Timothy Kennedy

Activists Must Be Held to a Higher Standard for Truth

News

Babcock's in-service contract for Victoria subs extended 6 years

The federal government has awarded Babcock Canada a six-year extension on its servicing contract for the Royal Canadian Navy's Victoria-class submarines. The contract is valued at $1.1 billion and includes options to extend the in-service support through the fleet's end of life, as the navy transitions to new submarines.

5,000 firefighters battling blazes as Canada faces 'intense' wildfire season: Carney

Prime Minister Mark Carney says more than 5,000 firefighters and nearly 300 waterbombers and other aircraft are battling blazes as Canada experiences one of the worst wildfire seasons on record. Carney said he visited federal workers in Ottawa on Sunday morning who are helping with wildfire response efforts in northwestern Ontario and across the country. Nearly 1,000 wildfires are blazing...

Politician's Pen

Steven Guilbeault

How and why I became Canada’s Minister of the Environment — and why I left

It all started about fifty years ago, in the backyard of my parents’ house in La Tuque, a small town roughly 130 kilometres north of Shawinigan. Our home sat on the edge of town, and just behind it was a gorgeous forest — my playground, my refuge, my world. Then one day, a work crew arrived and began cutting it...

Dominic Cardy

We Paid for the Bridge. Now We're Paying the Toll.

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Sheila Copps

Reflections on an American president who seems to be outside of the law

Gordie Howe must be turning over in his grave. The political football attached to the bridge bearing the legendary hockey player’s name has made a laughing stock of signed agreements. It seems the president of the United States has the power to unilaterally shut down bridges and revoke red cards in international sporting events.

Don Newman

The Carney Economic Agenda Meets First-Nations Friction

Two recent developments have exposed weaknesses in relations between Indigenous communities and the rest of Canada that could derail the Carney government’s infrastructure, energy, and growth agendas as well as progress towards reconciliation. Last Tuesday, it was announced that five First Nations in British Columbia have agreed to pay up to one billion dollars for a majority equity position in...

Andrew Coyne

Conservatives’ performative anger is a symptom of a movement that has lost its way

The Conservative activist Ben Woodfinden was in despair. “I’m more depressed about the state of conservative politics in Canada right now than I think I’ve ever been,” he lamented in a widely read post online. “I look at all sorts of conservative camps and factions right now and I see intellectual poverty everywhere.” The comment was occasioned, in particular, by...

Conrad Black

Carney’s failed diversification gambit

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s promise to lead Canada out of the economic and foreign policy shadow of the United States, and his bizarre Davos plan to lead a Thucydidean “middle power” revolt against Washington, has accomplished virtually nothing. Highly publicized overtures to China and western Europe are inconsequential. The United States still buys 68 per cent of our exports and...

Lloyd Axworthy, Allan Rock

Canada needs to stand against Marco Rubio’s latest crusade — even if it costs us

This week, the world marks International Justice Day and the 28th anniversary of the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court. All these years later, it remains among the most consequential efforts ever made to hold war criminals accountable. Now Washington has announced its intention to “dismantle the ICC brick by brick, if necessary.”

Robyn Urback

Ontario PC MPPs needed hotel rooms to rest. The poor babies only get five months of summer vacation

Can we just try to empathize with poor Tourism Minister Stan Cho, who is currently enjoying his five-month summer break from the provincial legislature, while earning $232,340 annually thanks to a pay bump legislators gave themselves last year? He had to spend 30 whole days at Queen’s Park during the spring session, and 28 days during the fall session, which...

Supriya Dwivedi

Carney is undoing Trudeau's Senate reforms. Here's why they made sense

Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney appointed four people to the Senate, including his principal secretary and a sitting Conservative MP, while announcing his government will be making changes to the Senate appointment process. The move instantly drew criticism as the two appointments represented a marked shift from the way former prime minister Justin Trudeau appointed senators, strongly indicating that...

Justin Ling

The Trump administration is calling a middle-power alliance ‘hubbub.’ Carney should listen up

A global coalition of middle powers, led by Canada, is little more than “hubbub,” says a senior Trump administration official. The United States, he says, has never been more necessary or relevant. “We are not concerned,” wrote Under Secretary of Defense Eldridge Colby on social media this week, that a middle-power alliance capable of rivalling America “is a serious possibility.”...

John Ivison

An untrustworthy Trump administration sounds worried its allies don’t trust it anymore

For many years, Elbridge Colby has been one of the loudest voices in Washington calling for America’s NATO allies to pay their “fair share” on defence, in order to allow the United States to pivot toward the growing challenge of China.

Justin Ling

Inside Pierre Poilievre’s ‘one-man show’

Everybody knows Pierre Poilievre has a favourite adviser, whose counsel and wisdom he values above all. That adviser’s name: Pierre Poilievre. Where once it was the Conservatives’ greatest asset, however, Poilievre’s love affair with Poilievre has become a liability according to some Tories, and morale within the party has sagged to new depths.

Lisa Van Dusen

Pierre Poilievre’s Whiplash Summer

If you’re Pierre Poilievre, you must be wondering, on some level, where everyone has been. Why are so many Tories suddenly complaining about the same personality you’ve had all along, and which they seemed to find so beguiling — or at least useful — when its most caustic bits were mobilized and sent into battle against Justin Trudeau’s prime ministership...

Andrew MacDougall

On this bridge, it’s clear that Mark Carney is no Gordie Howe

If the first rule of ransoms is that you don’t pay them, what to make of Mark Carney’s payoff to Donald Trump to open the Gordie Howe International Bridge? Make no mistake: Canada paid what amounts to a bribe. The Liberal government can dress it up as a “series of co-operative measures” regarding the governance of the new border crossing...

Pierre Gratton

Canadians want more mining projects, and trust Canada’s miners

Adam Radwanski

Doug Ford’s U.S. booze ban is a winning card in fight against Trump’s stacked trade deck

Raise a glass to Doug Ford, and most of his fellow premiers, for continuing to keep American liquor off our shelves. Because if there was somehow any doubt that we need to hold on to any sliver of leverage against Donald Trump, as trade negotiations heat up, it was erased by the way his hostage-taking of the Gordie Howe bridge...

Jeffrey F. Collins, Alex Cool-Fergus

As Canada burns, defence spending must go toward fighting wildfires

As we surveyed the sickly yellow sky in Toronto on Wednesday, coloured by out-of-control wildfires up north, we thought back to the burning season of last year. In August, 2025, wildfire did to the village of Kingston, N.L., what two centuries of wars, economic depression and storms could not: wiped much of it off the map. Facilitated by drought (itself...

Lorrie Goldstein

Canada still reeling from lost decade of economic opportunity under Trudeau

Carney left cleaning up the economic mess from our former PM

Andrew Coyne

Equalization reform: Great idea. Long overdue. Not going to happen

There are, it is sometimes said, only six people in Canada who understand the equalization formula, and five of them are dead. This is not entirely a joke. Equalization – the system of federal transfers to provinces whose “fiscal capacity” is judged to be below the national average – has become so overloaded with political fixes over the years, in...

Gary Mason

Help wanted: The federal Conservatives are in need of an adult

Conservative MP Dean Allison called a news conference last week to give the media an update on his inquiry into the COVID-19 vaccine. If you’re like me, you’re probably thinking: There’s an inquiry into the COVID-19 vaccine? Why? Mr. Allison was accompanied by a couple of supporters: The husband-and-wife team of Shawn and Theresa Buckley, who run the Covid Testimony...

James Moore

Prime Minister Carney’s bold steps towards reconciliation with Alberta

The 114th Calgary Stampede has come and gone, along with its performative, clichéd pancake-flipping political festival. But this year, one visitor mattered: Prime Minister Mark Carney – or rather, how Albertans would receive him. A lot is riding on the prime minister’s rapprochement with Albertans, and the vast majority of Canadians are hopeful that progress is being made and that...

Tim Powers

The Conservative flogging will continue until morale improves

As sure as summer is upon us, so are the regular tribulations of the federal Conservative Party in opposition. When the federal Conservatives sit in opposition and trail the Liberals in the polls, chances are whoever the leader is not living their best life. Step forward, Pierre Poilievre, it is your turn for a pummelling. Unfortunately for Poilievre, he tends...

Bob Rae

The Gordie Howe Bridge deal isn’t simply politics as usual. It’s about Trump’s distorted vision of power

The latest agreement between our government and the Trump administration to allow the opening of the Gordie Howe bridge that links Windsor and Detroit is just the latest in a long saga. After much delay and dithering, the bridge was scheduled to be open for business on June 15, 2026, after a planned ribbon cutting on June 12. The plan...

John Ivison

Trump’s Gordie Howe victory lap is the model for making deals with him

One observer said on CUSMA, Canada has to propose something that allows Trump to take the credit ‘without doing something that’s bad’

Campbell Clark

A U.S. bridge shakedown in a rough world

“Nice bridge you got there,” the thugs said. “It’d be a shame if something happened to it.” That’s not a verbatim transcript of what U.S. President Donald Trump’s operatives told Prime Minister Mark Carney about the Gordie Howe International Bridge, but it might as well have been. The U.S. President just shook down this country, refusing to allow the opening...

Colin Robertson

‘Coin of the Realm’: CUSMA, the Gordie Howe Bridge, and the End of Bilateral Trust

The Gordie Howe International Bridge should have been the easiest file in Canada-U.S. relations. Canada paid roughly $6.4 billion to build the bridge. Michigan received a new international crossing, customs facilities and a direct Interstate 75 connection without paying the construction bill. American workers, contractors and steel producers benefited. Automakers gained a badly needed alternative to the aging Ambassador Bridge...

News (Continued) More

Canada to join multinational fighter program in observer role: reports

Canada is widely expected to enter into a multinational next-generation fighter jet program this week, though not as a full member. International news media have reported for months that Ottawa is poised to sign onto a program to make a sixth-generation fighter with the U.K., Japan and Italy. Canada is eyeing observer status, which means getting access to inside information...

Anja Karadeglija

Poilievre names MP Dane Lloyd as his Alberta 'referendum lead'

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has named MP Dane Lloyd as his "referendum lead" for Alberta. Albertans will vote this October on whether to hold a future referendum on separation from Canada. Poilievre says in an open letter Lloyd will work to listen to Albertans and address their concerns.

Abbas Rana

Carney adviser Breitkreuz briefs Alberta Liberal MPs weekly as Ottawa co-ordinates response to separation movement

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s newly minted senior adviser, Morgan Breitkreuz, provides weekly briefings to Alberta’s three Liberal MPs on the upcoming separation referendum while co-ordinating the federal government’s response and helping officials in Ottawa better understand Alberta’s political landscape, according to Liberal MP Corey Hogan. In an interview with The Hill Times, Hogan (Calgary Confederation, Alta.) said that Breitkreuz makes...

Ottawa to temporarily ban foreign nationals travelling from Congo over Ebola risk

The Liberal government in Ottawa will bar foreign nationals who set foot in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past 21 days from entry to Canada due to the risk of importing the deadly Ebola disease. The Public Health Agency of Canada said on Sunday the new, temporary measure will come into effect on Monday night at 11:59 p.m...

Vernon Ramesar

Former N.S. deputy premier Rollie Thornhill dies at 90

Former Nova Scotia deputy premier and longtime Dartmouth South MLA Roland (Rollie) Thornhill died Thursday. He was 90. Premier Tim Houston offered his condolences in a statement, noting that Thornhill was "a gifted debater, with a quick wit and booming voice." Thornhill was born in Newfoundland in 1935. He is survived by his wife, Bonnie, and sons Jeff and Chris.

Olivia Stefanovich

Alberta First Nations intend to 'rock the vote' against separatism

2015 voting drive led to record on-reserve turnout. First Nations leaders in Alberta are turning to a campaign that saw record on-reserve voter turnout in an effort to tip the scales against the separatist movement during October’s provincial referendum. Grand Chief Trevor Mercredi of Treaty 8 First Nations told CBC News they want to replicate the 2015 "Rock the Vote"...

Wolfgang Depner

Former B.C. Liberal cabinet minister Mike Bernier is appointed leader of CentreBC

A former B.C. cabinet minister is the new leader of CentreBC, an upstart political party that lacks a seat in the legislature but offers itself as a middle-of-the-road alternative to the two major parties in provincial politics. The party announced outside the legislature that Mike Bernier is its new leader, having served from 2013 to 2024 in various roles, including...

Sergio Vargas, Mackenzie Gray

Trump won’t hesitate to postpone World Cup final over Canadian wildfire smoke: U.S. ambassador

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says if smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to blanket New Jersey ahead of the World Cup final on Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump will not hesitate to ask the game be postponed. “If the pollution is so bad that it’s dangerous to the players or it’s dangerous to the fans, the first person to...

Anja Karadeglija

Opposition brewing as data centre capacity is set to explode across Canada

Across Canada, plans are underway for a massive boom in construction of the huge new data centres needed for artificial intelligence technology. But opposition is also building as residents worry about how the facilities will affect their communities -- and as the data centres themselves become a symbol of the anxieties swirling around AI. "An AI data centre is like...

Sheinbaum, Carney to Watch World Cup Final With Trump

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to the US to attend Sunday’s World Cup final on President Donald Trump’s invitation, creating the opportunity for a reset after a month filled with regional tensions.

Alessia Simona Maratta, Mackenzie Gray

Hoekstra says Trump serious about tariff threat over wildfire smoke

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says President Donald Trump‘s threat to impose new tariffs over smoke from Canadian wildfires should be taken seriously, arguing the ongoing haze is causing economic damage in the United States. Smoke from Canadian wildfires has blanketed several major American cities, including Detroit, Washington and Chicago, prompting Trump to lash out at Canada on social...

Isabella Zavarise

Disability Alliance calls on B.C. MLA to resign, citing ‘harmful’ comments

An organization that advocates for people with disabilities is calling on a B.C. MLA to resign following comments she made about those receiving disability assistance. Disability Alliance B.C. said the remarks from Tara Armstrong, the representative for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream, were “false, misleading, and deeply harmful.” “It is such a shame that she has continued to use her platform in such...

David Cummings

Minister says nothing went wrong with Ottawa's response to Ontario wildfires

Ottawa receiving calls for federal support as hundreds of wildfires burn across Ontario. As hundreds of wildfires burning across Ontario force communities to evacuate and prompt urgent calls for government support, Eleanor Olszewski, the federal minister of emergency management, is defending Ottawa's response. "I don't believe that anything did go wrong in this situation regarding the wildfires in Ontario," Olszewski...

Peter Zimonjic

Trump threatens increased tariffs for wildfire smoke that has 'unnecessarily invaded' U.S.

Stop 'chirping' about wildfire smoke and send help like Canada has, Premier Ford tells Republican politicians. U.S. President Donald Trump is adding his voice to the chorus of Republican politicians who are blaming Canada for wildfire smoke drifting across the border. Hundreds of active wildfires, most in northwestern Ontario, have triggered air quality warnings for states close to the Great...

Darren Major

Mexico not looking to cut side deal with U.S. and leave Canada out, foreign secretary says

Mexico's foreign secretary says his country isn't looking to cut a deal with the U.S. if it means abandoning the trilateral trade pact with Canada. When asked Friday if Mexico would go it alone on a trade deal with the U.S., Roberto Velasco Álvarez shook his head and said all three countries that make up the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) have...

Josh Wingrove

Canada-US Bridge Pact Omits Canada’s Debt Costs, Document Shows

Canada and the US agreed to split the profit from a new bridge between Ontario and Michigan for 15 years — with no provision to cover Canada’s debt-service costs on the project, according to a copy of the pact seen by Bloomberg News. The agreement in principle covering the Gordie Howe International Bridge appears to contradict earlier public remarks from...

Sarah Ritchie

Saab says pilot training will take place in Canada if Ottawa buys Gripen jets

Saab says it will work with Canadian company CAE on a domestic training, flight simulation and support program if Ottawa decides to buy its Gripen jets. In a media statement, the companies say the deal would mean critical operational and mission systems information would stay in Canada under Canadian control. The Swedish jet maker has been trying to convince the...

Erika Morris

Federal justice minister orders new trial for Quebec man convicted of four murders

Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser has ordered a new trial for a Quebec man convicted of four murders in the 1990s. Fraser says he found reasonable grounds to believe there may have been a miscarriage of justice in the case of Daniel Jolivet. Jolivet was convicted in 1994 of two counts of first-d

Allison Jones

Ontario cabinet minister Stan Cho resigns in hotel expense saga

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is losing two cabinet ministers, as one resigned Friday amid criticism for expensing hotel stays in Toronto despite living in the city and a second announced his retirement. Stan Cho, who represents the north Toronto riding of Willowdale, resigned his post as minister of tourism, culture and gaming after coming under fire for expensing $16,000 in...

Peter Mansbridge, Chantal Hébert, Bruce Anderson

Good Talk -- A New Orange Cloud Descends on the Canada/US Relationship

It's our first summer of 26 special Good Talk and there's lots to talk about. This week it's wildfires and the smoke they cause, upsetting the Canada/U.S. relationship. Not to mention the renegotiated Gordie Howe Bridge deal. For Pierre Poilievre its whether his leadership can survive much longer with internal fights breaking out all the time. Chantal Hebert and Bruce...

Eleanor Wand

Senate approves changes to ethics code and guidelines to allow political fundraising, loosen gifting rules

As part of a series of changes to the Senate’s ethics code and guidelines that came weeks before Prime Minister Mark Carney appointed a longtime Liberal insider and a Conservative MP to the Upper Chamber, Senators are now permitted to directly partake in political fundraising, among other changes. “This is in line exactly with the fact that there’s now going...

Stephanie Ha

‘Contradictory statements about what you’ve given away’: Poilievre to Carney on Gordie Howe bridge deal

As the federal government faces questions over the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to publicize details of the deal between Canada and the United States to open the delayed project. In a letter addressed to Carney on Friday, Poilievre is accusing the prime minister of “contradictory statements...

Evan Dyer

Senior RCMP officer's 'no evidence' comment about India seems to contradict past statements

Perhaps the most surprising part of the announcement of the joint Operation Hard Ball last week was how much the RCMP's description of the actors involved in the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist differed from what it said only a short while ago. "I firmly state that nothing has come out today to link the Indian government" to the...

Jim Bronskill

Officials scrambled behind the scenes as Trump took aim at bridge project: emails

An American diplomat raised several questions about the Gordie Howe bridge in a phone call shortly before U.S. President Donald Trump's February comments on the cross-border project ignited a political frenzy, newly released records reveal. Hundreds of pages of emails, obtained by The Canadian Press through the Access to Information Act, also provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how Canadian officials...

Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi to seek Calgary seat in next election

Alberta's NDP leader says he'll seek a Calgary seat in the next general vote instead of running for re-election in Edmonton. Naheed Nenshi, who was mayor of Calgary for 11 years before switching to provincial politics, announced his decision Thursday in an online letter to his constituents in Edmonton-Strathcona. He says in the letter that he's "thrilled every day" to...

Jack Farrell

Byelection in Calgary to be called when people can pay attention to politics: Smith

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says a byelection in Calgary won't be called until Albertans have more time for politics. "In the middle of summer people probably aren't paying that much attention to politics," Smith told reporters Thursday in Edmonton. "We probably want to call it closer to when people are returning to normal, but you'll see an announcement in the...

U.S. lawmakers press Canada on wildfires as Carney defends environmental record

Some U.S. lawmakers pressed Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday to do something about wildfires that are sending smoke south of the border. Dozens of fires burning in northern Ontario have forced people from their communities and destroyed homes in Namaygoosisagagun First Nation north of Thunder Bay. Smoke from those fires has blanketed much of Southern Ontario and large swaths...

Stephanie Ha

PM Carney insists Gordie Howe Bridge tolls will not be shared ‘until all debt is repaid’

Prime Minister Mark Carney is doubling down on Canada’s deal with the United States to open the delayed Gordie Howe International Bridge and insists toll revenue will not be shared “until all the debt is repaid.” “It’s not splitting the tolls of the bridge. It is an agreement for 15 years to split net revenues,” Carney said when speaking to...

Aarjavee Raaj, Ethan Morneau

More than 850 wildfires across Canada as flames tear through parts of Northern Ontario, destroying buildings

More than 850 active wildfires are burning across Canada, including in parts of Northern Ontario, where flames are tearing through structures, forcing residents to flee and sending smoke across the province. According to latest data from the province, there are 180 active wildland fires — 136 in Ontario’s northwest region, with 63 classified as out of control, and 44 in...

Rachel Aiello

‘No good way’ to build major projects without First Nations partnership, natural resource minister tells AFN

Canada’s minister of energy and natural resources told a room of chiefs on Thursday that in his mind “there is no good way to build major projects without First Nations partnership and leadership.” Amid tension over Prime Minister Mark Carney’s promise to meaningfully consult Indigenous communities, while also angling to expedite approvals for new major energy and infrastructure projects in...

US Poli

Sheila Copps

Reflections on an American president who seems to be outside of the law

Sergio Vargas, Mackenzie Gray

Trump won’t hesitate to postpone World Cup final over Canadian wildfire smoke: U.S. ambassador

Bernard Condon, The Associated Press

Paying for early access to Trump's Truth Social could raise big money - and major ethical issues

NEW YORK (AP) -- America's first billionaire president may soon be profiting from a new line of business tied to his office: charging access for a first peek at certain posts on his Truth Social platform.

Michelle L. Price, Eric Tucker And Collin Binkley, The Associated Press

Trump doubles down on US election attacks in his primetime speech

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump used a primetime address to the nation Thursday to elevate his yearslong push to raise doubts about the legitimacy of U.S. elections and dispute his 2020 loss in an appeal for more restrictive voting laws ahead of the midterms.

International

Sergio Vargas, Mackenzie Gray

Trump won’t hesitate to postpone World Cup final over Canadian wildfire smoke: U.S. ambassador

Darren Major

Mexico not looking to cut side deal with U.S. and leave Canada out, foreign secretary says

Amanda Coletta

Trump’s Man in Canada Practices a No-Holds-Barred Diplomacy

Ambassador Pete Hoekstra is the unabashed defender of the president in a country where tariffs and 51st-state talk are wildly unpopular

Mark Ramzy

Canada attends Trump summit targeting left-wing extremism

The Carney government has sent a senior official from Canada’s embassy in Washington, to a Trump administration summit trying to rally allies behind a new U.S. campaign targeting left-wing groups it claims are a top terrorism threat. Canada is one of more than 60 countries attending the high-level counterterrorism meeting, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand’s office confirmed Thursday, though it’s...

Dylan Robertson

Canadian diplomats in U.S. face gun violence, housing woes, audit finds

An internal government audit of Canadian diplomatic missions in the U.S. completed late last year found staff faced safety risks and problems with accessing health care -- more than a year after a union flagged those same issues. "U.S. cities present security risks related to street crime, protests, the widespread presence of firearms, and broader social crises such as substance...

Think Tank

Jerome Gessaroli

Making it count: A framework for estimating the economic effects of Indigenous engagement in British Columbia

Resource projects in Canada – including mines, pipelines, and energy infrastructure – often require engagement with affected First Nations before they can proceed. When consultation is mishandled or ignored, the consequences extend well beyond regulatory delays: projects can face costly litigation, years of uncertainty, lost investment, or even cancellation. Billions of dollars of economic activity and thousands of jobs can...

Ramona Coelho

It’s time for Parliament to legislate proper MAiD oversight

Rupak Chattopadhyay

What Is Sovereignty? Canada and the Politics of Shared Authority

This October, Canada faces both an Alberta referendum that could catalyze an unprecedented independence vote in that province and a provincial election that could do the same in Québec for the third time in 50 years. As a result, the word “sovereignty” has again entered our national, daily political discourse. As it happens, sovereignty is one of the most frequently...

Substacks

A collection of SubStack publishing within Canadian public affairs.

Peter Nicholson

Sage Roundtable: The Economic and National Unity Twists and Turns of a West Coast Pipeline

Peter Nicholson: Thanks, Chris. Since the events of July 2 we have quite a bit more information on the agreement between Canada and Alberta over the rules that are going to govern both the pipeline and oil sands production developments. I think there is a growing recognition that a pipeline shouldn’t be a “field of dreams” – that it is...

Peter Nicholson

Carbon Capture and the Pipeline: Is There Less Quid in the Quid Pro Quo?

Prime Minister Carney has made clear from the outset of his time in office that without a commitment to implement the Pathways carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, there would be no new bitumen pipeline to the B.C. coast. The expectation was formalized in the Nov. 27 Alberta-Ottawa MOU and the May 15 Implementation Agreement. The oil sands industry has...

Dean Beeby

Ottawa to press for return of looted grave goods

An Indigenous couple’s remains, repatriated to Canada six years ago, have yet to find a final resting place because their “spiritual belongings” are being held by museums in the United Kingdom. Six objects associated with Demasduit and Nonosabasut, among the last of the Beothuks of Newfoundland, are being retained by the National Museums Scotland and by the British Museum. Thanks...

Podcasts

Trump’s ‘big lie’ in prime-time

In a nationally televised address last week U.S. President Donald Trump repeated claims about fraud and foreign interference in the 2020 election, and announced the release of declassified documents he says reveal a government cover-up. But with the midterms approaching, there remains much concern that Trump's speech, and his years-long conspiracies, aren’t really about the election he lost, but the...

The blurry Gordie Howe bridge 2.0 details

The Gordie Howe International Bridge will open on Monday, July 27....for now. It comes as its previous opening date of June 12 was cancelled due to US President Trump demanding a new deal in exchange for the American side opening up.

The resistance to AI data centres in Canada

There are several development projects underway for AI data centres in Canada, with plans for many, many more. The Canadian government is behind these projects as it tries to encourage Canadians to adopt the technology and increase Canada’s digital sovereignty by housing data within our borders. But there is a lot of opposition to these data centres from the communities...

Hate has corrupted the world’s biggest charities

The Red Cross, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, UNICEF and more — they’re treated by governments and the media as neutral humanitarians working for everyone’s rights and welfare. But as Danielle Haas tells Brian, a new investigation by her organization EiGHT found them rife with bias, particularly against Jews and Israel. It uncovered charities refusing to acknowledge...

Infighting among senior Conservatives leaves caucus, staff, and volunteer morale ‘in the absolute shitter,’ say MPs, veteran party members

Trump confronts Carney at World Cup Final over wildfire smoke: ‘Our air’s being poisoned’ - says he took Carney to task, demanding that he bring the natural disaster under control

U.S. senator says states should help Canada ‘without the threats’ as Trump fumes over wildfire smoke

U.S. Ambassador Hoekstra set to speak at Edmonton conference on regional partnerships

Government tip-off prompted spy agency to look into federal scientist, CSIS says

Polls

Federal Tracker: Liberals Lead by 8 as NDP Slip

Wildfire fears burn hot, even as belief in human-caused climate change continues to decline

Opinion

Openness, Exploited: Canada’s Greatest Strength Is Now Its Biggest Vulnerability

Activists Must Be Held to a Higher Standard for Truth

News

Babcock's in-service contract for Victoria subs extended 6 years

5,000 firefighters battling blazes as Canada faces 'intense' wildfire season: Carney

Politician's Pen

How and why I became Canada’s Minister of the Environment — and why I left

We Paid for the Bridge. Now We're Paying the Toll.

Opinion (Continued) More

Reflections on an American president who seems to be outside of the law

The Carney Economic Agenda Meets First-Nations Friction

Conservatives’ performative anger is a symptom of a movement that has lost its way

Car­ney’s failed diver­si­fic­a­tion gam­bit

Canada needs to stand against Marco Rubio’s latest crusade — even if it costs us

Ontario PC MPPs needed hotel rooms to rest. The poor babies only get five months of summer vacation

Carney is undoing Trudeau's Senate reforms. Here's why they made sense

The Trump administration is calling a middle-power alliance ‘hubbub.’ Carney should listen up

An untrustworthy Trump administration sounds worried its allies don’t trust it anymore

Inside Pierre Poilievre’s ‘one-man show’

Pierre Poilievre’s Whiplash Summer

On this bridge, it’s clear that Mark Carney is no Gordie Howe

Canadians want more mining projects, and trust Canada’s miners

Doug Ford’s U.S. booze ban is a winning card in fight against Trump’s stacked trade deck

As Canada burns, defence spending must go toward fighting wildfires

Canada still reeling from lost decade of economic opportunity under Trudeau

Equalization reform: Great idea. Long overdue. Not going to happen

Help wanted: The federal Conservatives are in need of an adult

Prime Minister Carney’s bold steps towards reconciliation with Alberta

The Conservative flogging will continue until morale improves

The Gordie Howe Bridge deal isn’t simply politics as usual. It’s about Trump’s distorted vision of power

Trump’s Gordie Howe victory lap is the model for making deals with him

A U.S. bridge shakedown in a rough world

‘Coin of the Realm’: CUSMA, the Gordie Howe Bridge, and the End of Bilateral Trust

News (Continued) More

Canada to join multinational fighter program in observer role: reports

Poilievre names MP Dane Lloyd as his Alberta 'referendum lead'

Carney adviser Breitkreuz briefs Alberta Liberal MPs weekly as Ottawa co-ordinates response to separation movement

Ottawa to temporarily ban foreign nationals travelling from Congo over Ebola risk

Former N.S. deputy premier Rollie Thornhill dies at 90

Alberta First Nations intend to 'rock the vote' against separatism

Former B.C. Liberal cabinet minister Mike Bernier is appointed leader of CentreBC

Trump won’t hesitate to postpone World Cup final over Canadian wildfire smoke: U.S. ambassador

Opposition brewing as data centre capacity is set to explode across Canada

Sheinbaum, Carney to Watch World Cup Final With Trump

Hoekstra says Trump serious about tariff threat over wildfire smoke

Disability Alliance calls on B.C. MLA to resign, citing ‘harmful’ comments

Minister says nothing went wrong with Ottawa's response to Ontario wildfires

Trump threatens increased tariffs for wildfire smoke that has 'unnecessarily invaded' U.S.

Mexico not looking to cut side deal with U.S. and leave Canada out, foreign secretary says

Canada-US Bridge Pact Omits Canada’s Debt Costs, Document Shows

Saab says pilot training will take place in Canada if Ottawa buys Gripen jets

Federal justice minister orders new trial for Quebec man convicted of four murders

Ontario cabinet minister Stan Cho resigns in hotel expense saga

Good Talk -- A New Orange Cloud Descends on the Canada/US Relationship

Senate approves changes to ethics code and guidelines to allow political fundraising, loosen gifting rules

‘Contradictory statements about what you’ve given away’: Poilievre to Carney on Gordie Howe bridge deal

Senior RCMP officer's 'no evidence' comment about India seems to contradict past statements

Officials scrambled behind the scenes as Trump took aim at bridge project: emails

Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi to seek Calgary seat in next election

Byelection in Calgary to be called when people can pay attention to politics: Smith

U.S. lawmakers press Canada on wildfires as Carney defends environmental record

PM Carney insists Gordie Howe Bridge tolls will not be shared ‘until all debt is repaid’

More than 850 wildfires across Canada as flames tear through parts of Northern Ontario, destroying buildings

‘No good way’ to build major projects without First Nations partnership, natural resource minister tells AFN

US Poli

Reflections on an American president who seems to be outside of the law

Trump won’t hesitate to postpone World Cup final over Canadian wildfire smoke: U.S. ambassador

Paying for early access to Trump's Truth Social could raise big money - and major ethical issues

Trump doubles down on US election attacks in his primetime speech

International

Trump won’t hesitate to postpone World Cup final over Canadian wildfire smoke: U.S. ambassador

Carney’s failed diversification gambit

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